Am I the only one that reads the dedication pages of a book? I am reading at - desultorily - Dave Arnold’s Liquid Intelligence, dedicated to his sons Booker and Dax.
Can anyone recommend a food-nerd forum like this one, but for wider interests, to not diffuse the ANOVA emphasis here, please?
You’ll likely have listened to Dave Arnold’s podcast - cooking issues? Some episodes are great fun, many are informative.
Forum-wise, 
. Reddit/cooking? egullet? singletrackworld.com can sometimes address food.
Liquid intelligence - great! You’ve read Harold McGee’s books?
Realising this is the opposite of what you intended, but have you tried a Spinzall? It’s on my list of ‘don’t need but would like to try’ cooking gadgets.